Paul Kneisel: >Perhaps Proyect will inform us of his academic authority to write, sans >qualifiers, that Freud has "absolutely no authority." One is also >scientifically curious what "real scientists" refuted repressed memories >and the academic journals where they published. Look, scientists have done quite a good job refuting the notion that traumatic childhood events can be "repressed". If you want to familiarize yourself with their work, the best place to look is in the books dealing with all the preposterous charges made against parents and day care center workers like Margaret Kelly Michaels in New Jersey, who spent years in prison because children were coached by evil psychotherapists drunk on Freudian dogma. This fucked-up notion of "repressed memories" is a throwback to the Salem Witch trials, where "proof" of complicity with Satan was established on the same footing. Freudian psychoanalysis is 20th century religion. Capitalism has undercut the authority of traditional religion, so the poor lost souls who need some cheering up go to a shrink rather than a priest. Some day in the future when humanity has a chance to study the barbarism of the 20th century, much attention will be devoted to the phenomenon of licensed physicians trying to cure people of their unhappiness by listening to them talk for 50 minutes. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
